254 Pages. Complete and Unabridged. THE Baron de Bazancourt's book "Les Secrets de l'Epée" is one of the most interesting contributions made in modern times to the literature of the white arm. Nowadays when the beautiful and useful art of fencing and sword-play is beginning, has well begun one might even say, to attract the attention which not very long ago it vainly asked for in England, it certainly seems high time for an English translation of so remarkable a work. The occasion then has come and found a writer ready for it. To what extent he has shown himself, as Shagpat had it, "master of an event" shall be presently discussed. The Baron de Bazancourt's book was published by Amyot 8 Rue de la Paix Paris in 1862 and reproduced by the same firm in 1876. The Baron, who died in 1865, was well known in Paris society and also well known to a wider public by works on the campaigns in the Crimea, Italy, Mexico, and Cochin China. His book on the secrets of the sword was and is noteworthy in many ways. If paradoxically inclined one might say that "Les Secrets de l'Epée" was written to prove that there are no such secrets, which, of course, so far as regards all once vaunted "secret thrusts" is but a platitude.
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Secrets of the Sword
254 Pages. Complete and Unabridged. THE Baron de Bazancourt's book "Les Secrets de l'Epée" is one of the most interesting contributions made in modern times to the literature of the white arm. Nowadays when the beautiful and useful art of fencing and sword-play is beginning, has well begun one might even say, to attract the attention which not very long ago it vainly asked for in England, it certainly seems high time for an English translation of so remarkable a work. The occasion then has come and found a writer ready for it. To what extent he has shown himself, as Shagpat had it, "master of an event" shall be presently discussed. The Baron de Bazancourt's book was published by Amyot 8 Rue de la Paix Paris in 1862 and reproduced by the same firm in 1876. The Baron, who died in 1865, was well known in Paris society and also well known to a wider public by works on the campaigns in the Crimea, Italy, Mexico, and Cochin China. His book on the secrets of the sword was and is noteworthy in many ways. If paradoxically inclined one might say that "Les Secrets de l'Epée" was written to prove that there are no such secrets, which, of course, so far as regards all once vaunted "secret thrusts" is but a platitude.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781663523457 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 06/28/2020 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d) |
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